Morning

Song TitleMorning (Search)
Composer(s):Benjamin Britten
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):Ronald Duncan
Keyword(s) & Features: Aflame; Beauty; Bending; Day; Full; Great; Green; Hearts; Heavy; Herons; Imagery; Jumping; Leaving; Lifting; Manes; Metaphor: Morning as Heron; Metaphor: Morning as Smoke; Metaphor: Morning as Stallion; Metaphor: Morning as Women; Metaphor: Night as Snake; Morning; Nature; Night; Oceans; One Octave or Less; Pails; Personification: Morning; Plumes; Rising; Scarlet; Seas; Sky; Smoke; Snakes; Stallions; Time; Time of Day; Valleys; Velvet; Wells; White; Wings; Women
First LineMorning is only (Search)
Average Duration1:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1944 - 1945 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=31420
Larger WorkThree Songs from This Way to the Tomb (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/2EfP0P6HUqv3yqU3m57uW2
Catalog DesignationNo. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: E4 - D5 (Search)
NotesFrom the incidental music to the play This Way to the Tomb. Linked recording is a unison children choir version (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.halleonard.com/product/48011080/evening-morning-night (Search)
Sources Citedhttp://www.brittensongdatabase.com/browse/by-ability-level/moderately-easy/morning.html (Search)
ContributorGTM , Wyatt Brown (Search)
Contributor Affiliation Texas Tech University (Search)
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